National Aeronautics and Space Administration

La misión Europa Clipper despegó en un cohete Falcon Heavy de Space X y viajará casi seis años para llegar al planeta.

By Kenneth Chang

La compañía completó con éxito un vuelo de prueba del cohete más potente construido hasta ahora. Algunos residentes de Texas cercanos al lugar experimentaron temblores cuando el propulsor fue atrapado por brazos mecánicos.

By Kenneth Chang and Eric Lipton

Europa Clipper will study whether Europa, Jupiter’s fourth-largest moon, possesses ingredients and conditions favorable for life.

By NASA

The spacecraft lifted off Monday on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, embarking on a nearly six-year journey to Jupiter.

By Kenneth Chang

NASA’s Europa Clipper mission represents something bigger than just the study of an icy moon of Jupiter.

By Claire Isabel Webb

The company completed a successful test flight of the most powerful rocket ever built. Some residents near the Texas site experienced shaking as the landing vehicle was caught by mechanical arms.

By Kenneth Chang and Eric Lipton

A sequence of images captured by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope showed how much the giant storm changed shape as it traveled within the planet’s atmosphere.

By Robin George Andrews

Works by Ada Limón and Peter Sís, Randy Cecil, Lucy Ruth Cummins and more depict the poetry, wonder and droll humor inspired by the great beyond.

By Bruce Handy

Dos astronautas, uno estadounidense y otro ruso, despegarán en un vuelo que traerá de vuelta a casa a los astronautas del Boeing Starliner el próximo año.

By Kenneth Chang

Two astronauts — one American, one Russian — are headed to the International Space Station with two empty seats for crewmates who are already in orbit.

By Kenneth Chang